Is this a bad ujoint?

[greg92jeepxj]

Thank you for your reply Terry . This is a subject that is dear to us all . Normal maintenance will have us grease the zerk fittings where they are found but as we know , the centering ball ISNT greasable since there is no zero fitting anywhere on its flange nor does the grease injected into the crosses reach the centering ball. You've made the case , the centering ball MUST be greased independently . It isn't possible to determine the life expextancy of the centering ball since all our driving habits vary . It's interesting that spicer willingly sells u-joints without zero fittings . We've been taught that greasing u-joints is preventive maintenance but that can't be accomplished without zero fittings. I suppose if there were machining tolerances for a zerk fitting to be installed into the centering ball flange , spicer would have provided it with one. I'd say there isn't a flange / centering ball available in this size with a zerk fitting so that leaves us to handle it as an indivdual . Some things will never change.

 

[Bounty__Hunter]

This centering yoke looks to have a grease fitting, hard to tell.


Lots of great Spicer driveline parts here: 1310 Series

 

[JPNinPA]

There definitely are greasable centering yolks. They use the needle grease fitting not a zerk.

 

[TerryMason]

There are two versions of the centering yolk

211544X is non greasable - DANA SPICER 211544X Double Cardan CV non greaseable centering yoke fits Jeep 1310 series CV driveshaft Spicer style constant velocity driveshaft centering yoke and replacement spring

211355X is greasable - DANA SPICER 211355X Double Cardan CV centering yoke fits Jeep 1310 series CV driveshaft Spicer style constant velocity driveshaft centering yoke and replacement spring

notice the non greasable is more expensive :scratch:

The greasable one doesn't have a standard zerk fitting - it requires a special adapter for your grease gun, looks kind of like a needle.
I bought the non greasable one, thinking that I'd never really be able to get in there to grease it anyway.

 

[TerryMason]

I finally got around to fixing this. First, I pulled apart the driveshaft, and replace the outside ujoint (neareast the transfer case), and lubed up the centering yolk and put everything back together (as instructed by the techs at spicer). Well, the squeak was still there. I eventually fixed the problem by replacing both ujoints inside the CV - no more squeaks now.

So, it turns out one of my 5-1310X Spicer ujoints failed within 8000 miles.

I've got both the CV joints swapped out for these 5-1310-1X joints:

 

[JPNinPA]

I finally got around to fixing this. First, I pulled apart the driveshaft, and replace the outside ujoint (neareast the transfer case), and lubed up the centering yolk and put everything back together (as instructed by the techs at spicer). Well, the squeak was still there. I eventually fixed the problem by replacing both ujoints inside the CV - no more squeaks now. So, it turns out one of my 5-1310X Spicer ujoints failed within 8000 miles. I've got both the CV joints swapped out for these 5-1310-1X joints: <img src="http://www.jeepz.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=21504"/>

Can you see what failed
Any pics of the offending u-joint? Glad you got it fixed.

 

[TerryMason]

Can you see what failed
Any pics of the offending u-joint? Glad you got it fixed.

Can't tell anything is wrong with it when you rotate the caps, but when installed it made a high pitched squeak.

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[vinn]

good show ! I was told by a "jeep ster" the more you lift a jeep - the sooner a u -joint failure. my 94 yj has a 2 inch lift. I told the KID before I went to see it " I DONT LIKE NO STINKING LIFTED JEEPS ! well I bough had the 2 inch lift BECAUSE "it was cheaper than buying original springs" .. I wish my kid was that smart. later old vin